Photograph by Ottiwell Waterfield
A NATIVE HOUSE OF KANO HAS AN ORNATE FRONT
The design is carried out in mud, and several colors of clay are used to
make it more striking. Such a complicated pattern is rare these days, but
thirty years ago it was fairly common on the dwellings of important Nigerian
tribesmen.
Photograph
byJames
C.Wilson
THE EMIR OF MAINE-SOROA
GOES
FORTH
IN
GLORY
Sheep, cattle, and horsesofArab
stock
are
common
inthis
region,
north
of the tsetse-fly belt. Thelong
spear,
boxlike
stirrups,
and
rich
trappings
are characteristic. The gate
ofthe
fort
isinthe
background
(see
text,
page 69).